Mayonnaise towers and chocolate buns: The best of Icelandic cafés
A skonsubrauðterta in Borgarnes - piled up scones with tuna mayonnaise, egg and greens. Photo: Tor Bilski
Icelandica is a blog written by Tor Bilski, an American woman who travels every summer to Iceland with a group of friends. They ride horses, chatter incessantly, and kick up dust.
In a recent blog on travel website Stuck in Iceland, Bilski describes being presented with a brauðterta for the first time.
Now an Icelandic brauðterta means a bread cake and is a towering concoction of bread, mayonnaise, things like tuna, ham, asparagus, hard-boiled eggs and cucumber. Here's her description of a skonsubrauðterta, a local specialty made with skonsur, a type of Icelandic scone.
"The “skonsubrauðterta” was set before me, it looked more like dessert than lunch. The sandwich was a mash up of shrimp and egg salad in creamy sauce that was served on a spongy pancake type of bread, topped with a tomato. It was all at once sweet and savory, warm and soft as baby food, providing solace, comfort, sustenance. Surely, life goes on forever and you can deny your own mortality when you eat something this satisfying."
Read more about Bilski's top cafés and roadside bakeries in Iceland on the blog HERE.
The ubiquitous snúður - a favourite for young and old. It's basically a fluffy cinnamon roll with icing on top. Photo: Tor Bilski
